Try adding to your /startup dir
dhclient
dhclient-script
dhcpcd (symlink to dhclient)
dhcpd
All downloadable from the ibiblio packages.
Worked ok for me on a frugal install, found and connected to ETH0.
You may not need all of the above but i went for belt and braces.

Great stuff, tubby! I'll test it soon.

I want to make an idiot-proof Puppy (spot the Catch-22). Something that works out of the box for new computer users - "age" be damned - with no interest or inclination to command-line or scripting (or wizards), will resume intact after improper shutdowns (yay Silver Puppy's thread and pet - sorry off-topic) etc etc.
Regarding nooby's request for a compromise in automatic ethernet at bootup - just how hard would it be to include the option in the typical live-cd startup options of keyboard, locale, Xorg and mouse?

It automatically starts up the desktop with 800x600 screen size, Universal timezone, us-English keyboards.
You can change the first setup with one window.
The network connection is also automatic in case an eth0 interface is found and DHCP is available.

Quick setup Puppy is easy to make up based on any Puppy v4.x.
Download firstsetup-0.4en.pet from here.
Follow the document.

The secret of Puppeee and Pwireless2 is to use the latest Dhcpcd. All you need to to is start it and it will know which interfaces have a carrier and automatically request an IP - no configuration necessary, works on both wired or wireless networks.

The secret of Puppeee and Pwireless2 is to use the latest Dhcpcd. All you need to to is start it and it will know which interfaces have a carrier and automatically request an IP - no configuration necessary, works on both wired or wireless networks.

I think as Pwireless2 matures it will become the default networking app in Puppy/Quirky. It is coming along nicely._________________Woof Mailing List | keep the faith |

The secret of Puppeee and Pwireless2 is to use the latest Dhcpcd. All you need to to is start it and it will know which interfaces have a carrier and automatically request an IP - no configuration necessary, works on both wired or wireless networks.

The secret of Puppeee and Pwireless2 is to use the latest Dhcpcd. All you need to to is start it and it will know which interfaces have a carrier and automatically request an IP - no configuration necessary, works on both wired or wireless networks.

Actually, you could already do that with the latest version. Just delete gtrayicon from the startup folder. The frontend and backend are completely separate. I experimented this version with putting the Pwireless2 daemon startup in /etc/init.d but I think I'm going to move it back to /root/Startup because for some reason it adds like 15 seconds to shutdown time, at least on my machine.

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